Nalorakk is the first boss encounter you'll come across in the zone. He's the bear god in Zul'Aman, so the fight will consist of him switching between humanoid and bear forms at specific intervals. It's a fairly straightforward encounter that is mostly a "tank-n-spank" fight, though healing the target of his charge is crucial.

You will want to have two tanks for this encounter, as Nalorakk is tauntable and one tank the entire encounter will simply take too much damage to heal for the duration.

The Encounter

Humanoid Phase

During his "humanoid" phase, he will use three abilities; one is a random target charge ability called "Surge" that causes physical damage and knocks the target and any allies within 10 yards back, another being "Mangle" - a main tank targeted attack that increases damage done by bleeds by 100% and finally - "Brutal Swipe" - a frontal cleave ability that hits for "spread" damage, meaning you'll want multiple people being hit by it to spread the damage taken out.

At the end of this phase, have your bear form tank taunt and begin tanking as Nalorakk shifts into bear form.

Bear Phase

During this phase, he uses two bleed effects - Lacerating Slash and Rend Flesh - both of which are only used while Nalorakk is in bear form. Nalorakk also uses a raidwide silence effect that does around 1k damage and silences for 5 seconds.

At the end of this phase, have your humanoid form tank taunt and begin tanking as Nalorakk shifts out of bear form.

Recap of Abilities

Humanoid Phase

Brutal Swipe

Frontal "Saber Lash" ability that spreads its damage across the targets within the cone of its attack. If it hits a single target, it does 28500-31500 Physical damage (which can then be mitigated by armor), so it's imperative to soak this attack up with multiple members of the raid.

Surge

Charges a random target in the raid, causing 3700-4300 Physical damage and knocking back the target and allies within 10 yards.

Mangle

Increases damage taken by bleeds by 100%.

Bear Phase

Lacerating Slash

Deals 1735 damage every 2 seconds

Rend Flesh

Deals 5525-7475 Physical damage and causes the target to bleed for 2335 per second for 5 seconds.

Deafening Roar

Does 1235-1365 Physical damage and Silences anyone within 50 yards for 2 seconds.